2008年 Nov 4日 Tuesday, 13:36
Less than a month after it opened, and before the site for the mooted 12,500-seat Leeds Arena is decided upon, there’s still a sense of giddy excitement at arriving at a credible city-centre live music venue that’s not the (University) Refectory with its highly erratic sound system. The Leeds Carling Academy, as it’s now known, attained an almost mythic status in the 1990s as the Town and Country Club, but the novelty is tempered somewhat at what must be one of the stickiest carpets in the free world – perhaps a sign that the new venue is already a victim…